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  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  real magic of the transfer process is that no two transfer students follow the same path to MIT. Colored by the patina of life experience ... the given prompts. Luana: In November 2021, I began the process of

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

    These are in order of class year by seniority and alphabetical by ... (it took a lot of effort not to resort to a clickbait-y title like “ADMISSIONS BLOGGERS---EXPOSED!!!!!!”) Some of you may remember that a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink ... scores?"). But there was no mistake in admitting her. She rocked one of MIT ... that SAT scores can't account for all kinds of intelligence. The student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  surrounded by this deluge of words and stories had something to do with my ... The week after my semester at MIT ended, I was accompanied by this looming sense of vertigo—like something inside me was always cycling

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  building of dark red brick sootbleakened by more chimneys than its own, set ... . Discretization (noun): Discrete modeling of continuous processes epitomizes the ... , localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  college admissions process, I've gained a lot of perspective. I don't know ... This post is written by the beautiful and talented Christina '10 ... of my best friends, Colin, as we chatted about getting into our

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  student, you’re driven by the mentality of getting into a good school ... For those of you curious about life after MIT, I recently wrote this blog to share some of my thoughts. I've gotten lots of love and feedback

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  are obviously hot, but by cooling black metal that still holds a lot of ... knot, inspired by my classmate's project of tying knots and weaving metal ... I've been blacksmithing for just shy of a year. This fall, I took 3

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  . I added some of my own advice. Then I organized everything into the following categories. Some of it is excellent advice. Some of it will not make sense at the moment. A lot of items contradict each other. Here is the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially ... hate most about this time of year. I've never had a good spring semester at MIT, or, my falls were always better, at least. I find that by the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  of the entire process. Then, two hours later, I was pulling clean ... breathing had switched from being a background process to a task of concerted ... great degree of structure to it, six years of grade school, followed by

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  impressed by my response to my upbringing and family situation. Like, about to ... was a fantastic twist of fate. How much would have changed if the ... frantic night of keyboard-banging, friend-proofreading, and increasing panic

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  's drinking water from a bottle of what was once "Cloudy Apple"* juice. *Yeah ... ." There are a bunch of different things I could (should) touch on. Why ... How I blog - the writing and posting process Whether you should become

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  right to revoke or defer your offer of admission if your conduct does not remain consistent with the high levels of integrity that you have shown in ... to MIT’s Class of 2022 have asked us if their acceptance will be

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  't. ******************************************************************************************************************************************* As you can see by my post count, I'm new here. One of the things I ... are "There are no activities or combinations of activities which by ... with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  birth of a child by centrifugal force." You are familiar with the ... awarded for "discovering that the biochemical process by which onions make ... In 1965, the U.S. government awarded George (MIT Class of ~1923) and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  ! Curious? There are two key steps to for this process to work. 1) Read all of ... you're writing a report, and feel completely productive and proud of ... amazing strategy I’ve had the pleasure of discovering via 20.109 this

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  beginning of this summer -- and he's been told by one of the professors in the ... NASA shuttle launch) was presented to him by one of the aero ... According to my hit counter as well as by raw comment count, my entry

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  of evidence that “natural” ability differences are confounded by ... of confirming or being judged by negative societal stereotypes about ... processing of words.” The task was made up of 80 word fragments with missing

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  identified a good fit. As I got down to the process of actually filling out the ... , Facebooked, Slacked, or spoken on the phone with many members of the Class of ... . Typically, these students ascribe this ambiguity to a set of questions they

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016